Vita
Dr. Borbála Szabó
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Projekt TrenDiv
borbala.szabo@senckenberg.de
Date of birth: 19.02.1991.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/borbala-szabo-61282332/
Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kHAwV7MAAAAJ&hl=hu
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7587-1597
Education/Ausbildung
2014-2019
Szent István University, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, PhD School of Biological Science, Gödöllő, Hungary, Title of doctoral thesis: Trans- and multigeneration effects of Trebon pesticides on Folsomia candida Willem 1902 (Collembola)
2012-2014
Szent István University, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Biologist MSc, Budapest, Hungary, Title of master thesis: Folsomia candida (Collembola) growth and developing of the growth tests methods
2009-2012
Szent István University, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Biology BSc, Budapest, Hungary, Title of bachelor thesis: The effects of Trebon 10 F on the reproduction and food choice of the Folsomia candida (Collembola)
Research and teaching positions/Berufstätigkeit
Since 2025
Postdoc (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin)
Senckenberg Museum for Natural History Görlitz, Soil Zoolgy Department, Section Oligochaeta, TrenDiv project, Görlitz, Germany
2022-2024
Alexander von Humboldt Postdoc Research Fellow
University of Bremen, General and Theoretical Ecology, AG Filser, Bremen, Germany
2021-2022
Postdoc (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin)
Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Landscape and Conservation Ecology Group, Vácrátót, Hungary
2020-2021
Postdoc (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin)
Centre for Ecological Research, Danube Research Institute, Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology Group, Budapest, Hungary
2018-2019
Department engineer (Predoctoral Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin)
Szent István University, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology, Gödöllő, Hungary
2017-2018
UNKP Predoctoral grant traineeship
Szent István University, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology, Gödöllő, Hungary
2017
Campus mundi Predoctoral traineeship
Vrije Universiteit, Department of Ecological Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015
Erasmus Predoctoral traineeship
Vrije Universiteit, Department of Ecological Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Publikationen
Scientific publications
2026
Szabó, B, Riedel., E. K., Rohlfs M., Filser J. 2026. ‘Non-Linear Effects of Fontelis 20 SC (Fungicide) on Gut Microbiota Relate to Changes in Reproduction of Folsomia Candida (Collembola)’. Applied Soil Ecology 220: 106878. pdf.
2025
Szabó, B., Korányi, D., Rusch, A., Batáry, P., 2025. Suburban Areas Provide Refuge for Carabids in Cities With High Climate Seasonality and Urban Heat Island Effects: A Global Meta-Analysis. Diversity and Distributions 31, e70108. pdf
Batáry, P., Gallé, R., Korányi, D., Lakatos, T., Deák, B., Gallé-Szpisjak, N., Kabai, M., Koszta, Cs., Kotowska, D., Marja, R., Palotás, B., Szabó, B., Torma, A., Báldi, A., Hornung, E., László, Z., Molnár, Zs., Purger J. J., Seress, G., Urák, I., Purger, D., Sándor, K., Somay, L., Süle, G., Valkó, O., Zsigmond, A. R., Fischer, C., Marini, L., Tscharntke, T., Szitár, K., Török, E., 2025. Biodiversity and human well-being trade-offs and synergies in villages, Nature Sustainability, pdf
Fischer, J., Szabó, B., Manikhin, L., & Filser, J. 2025. A hidden artefact: How surfactants can distort the results of springtail reproduction tests. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, vgaf051. pdf
2024
Kiss, I., Erdélyi, G., Szabó, B. 2024. Nest site selection and fidelity of European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) population of Babat valley (Gödöllő, Hungary), Frontiers in Zoology, 21, article: 20, pdf
2023
Szabó, B., Korányi, D., Gallé, R., Lövei, G.L., Bakonyi, G., Batáry, P., 2023. Urbanization decreases species richness, and increases abundance in dry climates whereas decreases in wet climates: A global meta-analysis, Sci. Total Environ. 859 160145. pdf
Szabó, B., Révész, A., Boros, G., 2023. Additive and dose-dependent mixture effects of Flumite 200 (flufenzin, acaricide) and Quadris (azoxystrobin, fungicide) on the reproduction and survival of Folsomia candida (Collembola). Ecotoxicol. Environ. Saf. 263, 115219. pdf
2022
Bakonyi, G., Vásárhelyi, T., Szabó, B., 2022. Pollution impacts on water bugs (Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha): state of the art and their biomonitoring potential. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 194, 301. pdf
Korányi, D., Egerer, M., Rusch, A., Szabó, B., Batáry, P., 2022. Urbanization hampers biological control of insect pests: A global meta-analysis. Sci. Total Environ. 834, 155396. pdf
Szabó, B., Bálint, B., Balogh, K., Mézes, M., Seres, A., 2022. Changes in soil moisture and temperature modify the toxicity of sodium selenite and sodium selenate for Folsomia candida (Collembola) Willem 1902. Appl. Soil Ecol. 177, 104543. pdf
2021
Szabó, B., Lang, Z., Kövér, S., Bakonyi, G., 2021. The inter-individual variance can provide additional information for the ecotoxicologists beside the mean. Ecotoxicol. Environ. Saf. 217, 112260. pdf
Erdélyi G, Szabó B and Kiss I 2021 Basking site selection and usage strategies of the European Pond Turtle, Emys orbicularis (Linnaeus, 1758) in Babat Valley (Gödöllő, Hungary) Russ. J. Herpetol. 28 175–84. pdf
Bálint B, Balogh K, Mézes M and Szabó B 2021 Differences in the effects of sodium selenate and sodium selenite on the mortality, reproduction, lipid peroxidation and glutathione redox status of Folsomia candida Willem 1902 (Collembola) Eur. J. Soil Biol. 107 103361, pdf
Kiss, I., Erdélyi, G. and Szabó, B. 2021: Nesting activity and reproductive success of Emys orbicularis in Babat Valley (Gödöllő, Hungary). Herpetological Conservation and Biology 16(3):624–638
2020
Szabó, B., Bálint, B., Mézes, M., 2020. Effects of aflatoxin contaminated maize on Folsomia candida (Collembola). Eur. J. Soil Biol. 101, 103233. pdf
Szabó B., Bálint B., Mézes M., Balogh K., 2020. Agricultural trichothecene mycotoxin contamination affects the life-history and reduced glutathione content of Folsomia candida Willem (Collembola), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 66 (4), 379–392, pdf
Szabó B, Seres A, Bakonyi G (2020) Distinct changes in the life-history strategies of Folsomia candida Willem (Collembola: Isotomidae) due to multi- and transgenerational treatments with an insecticide. Applied Soil Ecology 152:103563. pdf
2019
Erdélyi G, Szabó B, Kiss I (2019) Basking activity pattern of the European pond turtle, Emys orbicularis (Linnaeus, 1758) in Babat valley (Gödöllő, Hungary). Herpetozoa 32: 221-227. pdf
Szabó B, Kocsis R, Mézes M (2019) Reproduction inhibiting effects of deoxynivalenol or T-2 toxin contaminated maize on Folsomia candida (Collembola), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 65 (4), 323-334, pdf
Szabó B; Lang Zs; Bakonyi G; Märien J; Roelofs D; van Gestel C.A.M, Seres A. (2019) Transgenerational and multigenerational stress gene responses to the insecticide etofenprox in Folsomia candida (Collembola), Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 175, 181-191 pdf
2018
Szabó B., Seres A., Bakonyi G. (2018) Folsomia candida (Collembola) locomotor activity pattern is changed by a neurotoxicant pesticide, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 64:4, 355-368. pdf
2017
Szabó B., Bakonyi G. (2017) The influence of different substrates on the reproduction traits of Folsomia candida (Collembola) in an insecticide test, Columella, 4(2): 33-40. pdf
Szabó B., Seres A, Bakonyi G. (2017) Long-term consumption and food replacement of near-isogenic by Bt-maize alter life-history traits of Folsomia candida Willem 1902 (Collembola), Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, 15(4):1275-1286. pdf
Szabó B., Bakonyi G. (2017) Multigenerational and transgenerational side-effects of an insecticide on eggs of Folsomia candida (Collembola), Polish Journal of Ecology, 65: 110–121, pdf
2014
Bánszegi O, Kosztolányi A, Bakonyi G, Szabó B, Dombos M (2014) New Method for Automatic Body Length Measurement of the Collembolan, Folsomia candida Willem 1902 (Insecta: Collembola). PLoS ONE 9(6): e98230. pdf